Alexander Hartner [http://community.jboss.org/people/ejb3workshop] created the discussion "Re: Adjust / reduce MDB bean pool" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/568771#568771 -------------------------------------------------------------- Using : @org.jboss.annotation.ejb.PoolClass (value=org.jboss.ejb3.StrictMaxPool.class, maxSize=5, timeout=2400000) seems to have done the trick. Setting a much larger timeout allowed me to process the messages without exceptions -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/568771#568771] Start a new discussion in JBoss Messaging at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]